Best Satay – Literally the Best Satay

One of my favourite local delights is chicken satay (meat skewers), and it has to be the Muslim version. Somehow satay made by the Chinese just don’t seem to taste as good, perhaps due to a different use of spices.

The best place to get good satay is probably Lau Pa Sat, where there is an entire street dedicated to satay stalls! Competition is fierce; satay sellers from the various stalls would actively approach potential customers. There are more than a dozen satay stalls. So which is the best one?

For the past 5 years (at least), I have been a die-hard fan of stalls 7 and 8. They call themselves Best Satay, and I totally agree with them! In fact, an old blog post that I wrote years ago praising their satay is still being displayed prominently on their stall front!

Being an avid satay eater, I have honed my skills in sifting out the good satay from the bad. In my opinion, good satay should have the following:

Stalls 7 and 8 exceed all my above expectations! And that’s not all. The sellers are always friendly and obliging, even going the extra mile to provide water and paper napkins for customers to wash their hands afterwards!

In my opinion, they really are the best satay stall around. I try to visit them at least once a week! Look out for the friendly lady boss, Ainon. She knows me by my Chinese name “Wan Ting”. The next time you go there, do help me say hi!

Surprising you said their satay is good. Everytime when Im there, I feel extremely intimidated by the aggressive stall owners trying to get you to buy from them. The satay usually turns out dissappointing as well.

Yeah I’ve encountered those pushy sellers. Can’t be helped that they get pushy. There’s simply too much competition already! But each time I know exactly which stall I’m buying from so it doesn’t affect me at all. I simply ignore them and head straight to stalls 7 and 8! lol!

I’m actually kinda afraid to go to that satay stretch cos there’s so much touting going on. You can see the vendors literally fighting for your attention. After being “pressurized”, we are forced to sit down to really poor quality satay. Wished they spend more time honing their skills than doing so much sales talk. After the few bad experiences, I gave up that place totally. But there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel with your post, so I may drop by stall 7 & 8 and give this stretch of road a one last try!

If you’re a satay aficionado, you might actually want to try out the satay at KTM (the railway station at Tanjong Pagar). I’m not much of a peanut sauce fan, and even then the satay there has won me over. Big chunks of succulent meat coated in just the right amount of seasoning. Plus, the rice cakes are free. :)